The AI-powered English dictionary
plural fortresses
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. quotations examples
Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160
(chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw. examples
third-person singular simple present fortresses, present participle fortressing, simple past and past participle fortressed
(transitive) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify. quotations examples
Honour and Beautie in the owners armes, / Are weaklie fortreſt from a world of harmes.
1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […]